Title:The end of the SemitesAuthor(s):RENTON, JamesDate:2017Citation:James RENTON and Ben GIDLEY (eds), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe : a shared story?, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 99-140Type:Contribution to bookSeries/Number:[Global Governance Programme]; [Cultural Pluralism]Abstract:By the end of the nineteenth century, the idea of the Semites had become the principal manifestation in Western European thought of the Christian tradition of linking Judaism and Islam, the Jew and the Muslim. This concept ...

Title:The British Empire's Jewish question and the post-Ottoman futureAuthor(s):RENTON, JamesDate:2017Citation:David J. WERTHEIM (ed.), The Jew as legitimation : Jewish-gentile relations beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 135-151Type:Contribution to bookSeries/Number:[Global Governance Programme]; [Cultural Pluralism]Abstract:This chapter re-examines the British Empire’s World War I alliance with Zionism as an exercise in legitimation. Unlike traditional Zionist historiography, Renton argues that the Balfour Declaration has to be understood in ...